PNW Volleyblog

For a full explanation on how these rankings work, click here . One additional note to add is that teams who had the previous week off will not have an additional blurb until they play again. Record are current through Tue, 9/22. 1) Texas State (5-1) Trending: flat The Bobcats picked up two more wins against teams they're supposed to beat, dropping a total of one set in a two-match sweep of HBU. TXST opens Sun Belt play this week with a likely bottom-feeder in ULM, but the next two weeks after that should be a good test, as UT-Arlington (picked 2nd in SBC West) visits San Marcos followed by a tough test as the Bobcats head to Lafayette to face the red-hot Cajuns. This week: vs ULM (3x) 2) SFA (5-1) Last week: idle This week: non-conference at South Alabama (2x). Three entirely separate events caused this to happen. These matches were actually supposed to happen last week as part of a 3-team tourney also including ULM, but that got wiped out by Hurricane Sally. SFA is available beca

Notes: Only teams that have played at least one match already will be listed here. That means a couple of things: top teams in conferences not playing fall seasons at all won't be listed; it doesn't mean I think they're worse than teams listed here (think Pac-12 & Big Ten at least for now, plus teams like Hawaii, Creighton, Marquette and Colorado State). On a similar note, teams playing a fall schedule that starts late won't be ranked until they play their first game (mostly referring to SEC; also applies to the Big 12, ACC and about half of Sun Belt to a lesser extent). A side effect of doing the rankings this way is that teams playing early will later drop significantly (if not out of rankings entirely) through no fault of their own, simply because more poerful teams open their seasons. While less than ideal, I feel this is better than the alternative (attempting to rank every team that will play in fall at some point) for a few reasons: 1) It focuses the attentio